Information About Managing Licenses for Smart Licensing Using Policy
Cisco Smart Software Manager (SSM) manages Smart Licensing Using Policy (SLP) purchases, tracking availability and consumption of licenses. A Smart Account (SA) contains the licenses purchased by an organization. Virtual Accounts (VA) are subaccounts within the Smart Account that further organize the licenses, such as by department, product, geography, and so on. For more information, see Smart Software Manager.
Cisco SD-WAN operates together with Cisco SSM to provide license management through Cisco vManage for devices operating with Cisco SD-WAN. Cisco vManage can show available DNA licenses, assign licenses to devices, monitor license usage, and report license consumption to CSSM. When you set up Cisco vManage to manage licenses, Cisco vManage operates between Cisco SSM and the devices in the network, as shown in the following illustration.

Supported Licenses
Cisco vManage supports a subset of the license entitlements by default. The license entitlement types include the following:
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Pre-paid
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A la carte: These entitlements are delievered based on orders in Cisco Commerce Workspace (CCW).
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Enterprise agreement (EA): These entitlements are delivered by reporting on the EA workspace.
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Post-paid
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MSLA-U: These entitlements are delievered based on orders in CCW.
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MSLA-C: These entitlements are delievered based on orders in CCW.
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For information about Smart Licensing Using Policy, see Smart Licensing Using Policy for Cisco Enterprise Routing Platforms.
Supported Entitlements
A license may include more than one entitlement. Each entitlement included with a license provides a specific functionality, such as routing features or a specific traffic throughput. The applicability of these entitlements on a particular device depends on the Cisco IOS XE software release operating on the device, and on the operation mode of the device, which can be autonomous or controller mode.
Your organization's Smart Account shows the entitlements included in each associated license.
Cisco vManage manages the following types of entitlements.
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DNA entitlements (for example, DNA Routing Advantage Tier 1)
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High Security (HSEC)
Other entitlements may appear in the Smart Account, but are not managed by Cisco vManage. Examples may include network stack entitlements, IP Base, App, Sec, Perf, Boost, DNA Essentials for SDWAN, and DNA Advantage for SDWAN.
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DNA Essentials for SDWAN (SDWAN-DNA-E) and DNA Advantage for SDWAN (SDWAN-DNA-A) are considered obsolete entitlement types and are not managed by Cisco vManage. |
Supported Devices
License management using Cisco vManage supports Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN devices and Cisco vEdge devices.
Role-Based Access Control
When configuring role-based access control, you can configure permissions for license management.
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Read permission: The user can only view the license management overview.
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Write permission: The user can manage licenses fully.
For information about configuring role-based access control, see Role-Based Access Control.